Jeffrey DeMunn (born April 25, 1947 in Buffalo, New York) is a prolific American stage, film and television actor.
Filmography
Theater
- King Lear (1972-1973, 2007, 2012)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1972-1973, 1982)
- Bent (1979-1980)
- Don Juan (1983-1984)
- The Country Girl (1984)
- Hedda Gabler (1994)
- Our Town (2002-2003)
- The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (2005)
- Death of a Salesman (2011)
Films
- Resurrection (1980)
- Christmas Evil (1980)
- Ragtime (1981)
- Frances (1982)
- Windy City (1984)
- Warning Sign (1985)
- The Hitcher (1986)
- The Blob (1988)
- Eyes of an Angel (1992)
- Newsies (1992)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- Phenomenon (1996)
- Turbulence (1997)
- Disney's RocketMan (1997)
- The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)
- The Green Mile (1998)
- The Majestic (2001)
- Hollywoodland (2006)
- The Mist (2007)
- Burn After Reading (2008)
Television
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982)
- Hill Street Blues (1985)
- The Twilight Zone (1985)
- Spenser: For Hire (1986)
- Moonlighting (1986)
- Dear John (1989)
- L.A. Law (1990)
- Law & Order
- Law & Order (1993-2008)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000-2001)
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005)
- Citizen X (1995)
- Cracker (1997)
- The Outer Limits (1998)
- Storm of the Century (1999)
- The Fugitive (2000)
- The Practice (2001)
- ER (2002)
- Our Town (2003)
- The West Wing (2004)
- The Walking Dead (2010-2012)
- Chicago Fire (2012)
- The Good Wife (2013)
- Mob City (2013)
- The Affair (2014)
- The Blacklist (2015)
- Billions (2016-)
- Divorce (2016)
Tropes
- Chronically Killed Actor: His characters do not have good survival rates...
- Production Posse: He frequently works with Frank Darabont, Stephen King, and Dick Wolf.
- Shakespearian Actors: He's a tenured theater performer and has appeared in both King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream multiple times.
- Those Two Actors: Aside from members of the aforementioned Production Posse, he appeared in several films with John Travolta.
- You All Look Familiar: He plays three different characters in the Law & Order franchise. Two are recurring characters for two of the shows, particularly for the parent series (who later made a guest appearance on Law & Order: Trial by Jury) and for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, then a One-Shot Character from Chicago Fire which is officially set in the Shared Universe.
